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The Consequences of Physical Immortality
Author: Bruce J. Klein
 Added: 07/25/2003
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QUESTION 8 Virus describes itself as a means of attaining immortality without resorting to mystical delusions, largely referring to memetic immortality. How compatible is this with the institute's idea of immortality?

Right, as Mike Perry, author ‘Forever For All’, said, "Immortality is mathematical, not mystical," [7]

I hope I’m not reading the question incorrectly, but the Immortality Institute is focused on the ‘physical’ side of immortality not necessarily ‘memetic’ immortality. I’d much rather be unknown and live forever, rather than be famous and only live fore a few decades.

As I understand Meme:

MEME: (pron. `meem') A contagious information pattern that replicates by symbiotically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Richard Dawkins, by analogy with "gene".) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic. [8]

QUESTION 8.1 Would immortals feel the same need to propagate their memes without the need to bequeath them to future generations?

The immortality institute’s mission is “to conquer the blight of involuntary death”[8]. Bequeathing and propagating memes, unless of course it’s the idea that living forever is a potential good, is not necessarily our main focus. Our goal is to be the best forum for discussion and repository of information about immortality on the web.

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Poster: kleblanc
Added: -0/8-/2003

When the ancient egyptians mummified themselves, they were aware of both the immortality of the soul and the immortality of the body. They considered both as possibilities. Current day spiritualists are going on a premise that was devised from the ancient egyptian texts, except it is only part of the story due to over-simplification and re-wording in Christian texts. There is no proof of an afterlife. We are wise to consider both possibilities.
Poster: Eric
Added: -0/7-/2003

If we would spend more time
reading our creators life
instructions we would be more
able to accept the death
penalty that satan decived us
into. But by our acceptance of
Jesus and what he did for us
at the cross we can avoid the
second death and live in heaven
for eternity. The World made new
without any pain or suffering.
The major problem highly intelligent
people like yourself have a hard time
seperating the natural mind
from the spiritual mind.
Poster: Deb K.
Added: -0/7-/2003


What if we are already immortal: which I happen to have reality on the fact that we are. The key here is new bodies while retaining memory/previous knowledge. Ethics has to be encouraged so that this knowledge is used for the good of all mankind. Bodies are "just a hunk of meat", who you really are is the area to be examined.

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